"Hipster" as pejorative.

ts: who spends more time worrying about the other's style, hipsters or norms

same old story from the nyt but i did kind of appreciate this one line:

Has there ever been a subculture this broadly defined?

b/c it does somehow seem like "hipster" is taken to just mean youngish urban resident with some creative interests who likes books, music, film, etc

"hipster" is as vague as "indie" and they generally come as a set.

http://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-was-a-hated-hipster-meme-and-then-it-got-worse

I posted this in the Ridicule thread, as well: Ridicule

It crosses over from ridicule to 'hipsterism'.

stuffisthings (#1,352)
Here's a fun thought exercise: try imagining someone who lives in New York but is definitely NOT a hipster. What do they look like? What do they wear? What kind of music do they listen to? What do they do with their day?
Posted on September 18, 2013 at 5:16 pm

stuffisthings (#1,352)
OK, did you do it? Maybe you imagined an immigrant taxi driver or a black single mother in the Bronx or a Staten Island garbage man.

Now: imagine that person complaining about "hipsters" on an Internet forum.
Posted on September 18, 2013 at 5:24 pm

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/savage-love-noisy-neighbors-nosy-questions/Content?oid=10977980

lol reminds me of when an ex-girlfriend lived in a house with an annoying hipster dude

that is, her housemate was dating an annoying hipster dude

are we doing this one in another thread already?

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20131013_Phila__should_be_grateful_to_its_hipsters.html

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hipsters are just young republicans?

http://www.ryot.org/5-ways-republicans-different-hipsters/419053

hardly a new viewpoint, the Vice axis, while it's tilted back toward the middle since the McInnes years, was hardly a stranger to conservatism

i like the handy 5-point summary though

Crapping on Everything Without Offering an Alternative
Retro-Obsessed
Irony
The Phony Everyman
Self-Denial

also, "trust-fundamentalist"

Because everyone knows a hipster when they see one — unless it’s them. And in today’s republican party, everyone can identify a wackadoo, right-wing asshat except when they’re it.

This is inane.

equality ain't just a river in egypt

Inane doesn't mean your swimming near first world war battlefields.

hipsters are just young republicans?

http://www.ryot.org/5-ways-republicans-different-hipsters/419053

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, October 14, 2013 1:55 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did anyone not know this

i didn't. i don't really know many young republicans

lol ok my bad i don't know why i have to phrase everything i post like an asshole lately. but yeah, hipsters are a maybe not 'republicans' but certainly exhibit a weird type of conservative thinking that i'm sure will lead to some odd political positioning in some of these young ppl's future

yes this clear-cut, easily definable group of people that has come to be known as "hipsters" clearly "exhibit" an identifiable "type" of "thinking" as a group. Thank you for your insightful post.

maybe the whole crew doesn't but the trust-fundamentalist subset clearly exhibit a type of "reflexive dismissive" "sarcasm"

Really stupid article. Hurting otm.

most people attacking "trust fund" types couldn't provide a working definition of what a trust fund is anyway, it just means "ppl I don't like & totally consider myself different from"

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:11 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hipsters getting touchy itt

"trust-fundamentalist" doesn't make any sense.

lol ok my bad i don't know why i have to phrase everything i post like an asshole lately. but yeah, hipsters are a maybe not 'republicans' but certainly exhibit a weird type of conservative thinking that i'm sure will lead to some odd political positioning in some of these young ppl's future

― sleepingbag, Friday, October 18, 2013 12:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf are you talking about

knowing what a trust fund is counterrevolutionary

hardly a new viewpoint, the Vice axis, while it's tilted back toward the middle since the McInnes years, was hardly a stranger to conservatism

― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, October 14, 2013 4:18 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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I am in awe of how well they've jettisoned that guy in the last couple years

trust-fundamentalism makes sense if you've met hipsters from wealthy backgrounds who are culturally progressive but having never really worked real jobs have some quaint notions of what life is like for people who don't come from wealthy backgrounds. think of a poet whose heart bleeds for poor people in africa but gets pissed at how rude the waitstaff is at the campus coffee shop

indeed, think of that poet

he's just a Skynyrd fan

southern poet man don't need rude waitstaff or poor africans around anyhow

Ok I can't think of it, I give up. Is it James Dickey?

dickey's dad had lawyer money when james was growing up but not fuck you money

I had a bf with a trust fund once! His trust fund consisted of $25,000 to pay for college tuition once he turned 21 (which paid for one year of tuition at the time), and another $25,000 once he turned 25. This trust fund obviously meant that he did not have to work an honest day in his life.

that's not the kind of trust fund that minimally furnished social media tech start-ups / recording studios are made of, for sure, but it sure beats nothing

"Trust fund" is just a legal designation -- it doesn't really speak to the amount of money involved. It's just used as shorthand here, obviously.

And being "retro-obsessed" isn't true of all hipsters. The concept of "slumming" is -- that part of the comparison is one I'd agree with.

I had a bf with a trust fund once! His trust fund consisted of $25,000 to pay for college tuition once he turned 21 (which paid for one year of tuition at the time), and another $25,000 once he turned 25. This trust fund obviously meant that he did not have to work an honest day in his life.

― clueless mom complaining about miley Cyrus (sarahell), Friday, 18 October 2013 22:37 (56 minutes ago)

http://funandgooddotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/article-2262100-16efd587000005dc-781_634x558.jpg?w=750 ?

different guy!

this one was a relatively distant relative of a founder of Polaroid

just imagine being someone who was more moved by the plight of children with kwashiokor than service sector employees in the wealthiest country in the world

$50k not bad! I feel like I should have gone to a school where it'd take $25k per year. I might write in complete sentences on ilx.

he writes steampunk erotica iirc

better than arcade fire slashfic

neither activity is a hipster thing to do

darnit

neither is publishing a book of vaguely-incisive statements underneath pictures of dogs, but it is closer

have never knowingly known someone with a trust fund, is that a thing people know about